About this Event
11am - Open discussion without the author
12pm - Special author appearance by Newson. The meeting will end with Q&A.
Book Club attendees will discuss and analyze various themes found in My Government Means to K*ll Me by Rasheed Newson.
It is strongly suggested to have completed reading the book prior to attending book club. This allows open, in-depth discussion amongst members without the worry of spoiling the book for others.
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Earl "Trey" Singleton III arrives in New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, at 17, he is ready to leave his overbearing parents and their expectations behind.
In the city, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activists, becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships—all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death.
Vibrant, humorous, and fraught with entanglements, Rasheed Newson’s My Government Means to K*ll Me is an exhilarating, fast-paced coming-of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young gay Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2057 N Los Robles Ave, 2057 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, United States
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